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Storing a hammock

Greetings,

What is the best way to store your hammock at home when you are not camping? I have a Hennessy hammock and I am tempted to keep it in the snakeskins after I've let it air dry in my basement for a few days. Would i be better served by rolling it up and stuffing it back into the sack from which it came and reserve the snakeskins for field use?

What is the best way to store your hammock at home when you are not camping? I have a Hennessy hammock and I am tempted to keep it in the snakeskins after I've let it air dry in my basement for a few days. Would i be better served by rolling it up and stuffing it back into the sack from which it came and reserve the snakeskins for field use?

Personally, I leave mine in the snakeskins all the time (as long as the hammock isn't wet, anyway) stuffed into the bag that I carry it in along with the tarp seperately. It doesn't have any lofting material in it (like down) so I see no harm in it. JMO.

“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.” - Cormac McCarthy

I keep mine hung from a couple non-load-bearing hooks in a spare room. Only because I'm constantly tinkering with it, though...nothing to do with some preferred storage method. As long as a hammock is kept dry and bug-free, it should be fine any way you want to store it.

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I just stuff mine in a box. Sometimes it's in the bag and sometimes it's not. But I always air it out for at least a day...if I've sweated in it, I leave it up for longer.

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